Water Online Highlights

1. Pittsburgh Water Sets New Standard With Customer Request Sampling To Support Lead Service Line Replacement 4/17/2025

   Discover how we helped our customer, Pittsburgh Water, reduce their turnaround times, streamline sampling workflows, and save hours of work with our sampling solution. Learn how you can also use sampling to support your replacement and community engagement programs with their case study.

2. The New Gold Rush: Groundwater Sparks Fierce Battles Across Texas 4/17/2025

   Increasing water demands in Texas cities are creating significant conflict over shared groundwater resources. Texas’s unique legal framework, particularly the “rule of capture,” and the limitations of current regulatory mechanisms, is creating a new gold rush among public and private entities that wish to utilize the increasingly scarce resource. 

3. Reclaim Your Space: Benefits Of Complete Chemical Metering Systems And Skids 4/17/2025

   With a pre-fabricated skid, utilities and industrial businesses can minimize downtime, reduce costs, and eliminate the challenges associated with piecemeal assembly.

4. Rural Water Treatment Plant Reduces TTHMs And HAA5 With Ion Exchange 4/17/2025

   Both rural and urban water systems experience dissolved organic carbon (DOC) — a precursor to halogenated organic compounds like total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) and haloacetic acids (HAA5) — in source water. However, rural systems often struggle to find treatment options suited for smaller scale operations and budgets.

5. What Are The Latest Innovations In Corrosion Prevention For Water Infrastructure? 4/17/2025

   Corrosion prevention is a pressing concern for wastewater professionals in the U.S. and elsewhere. Corroded infrastructure can fail prematurely and cause other costly complications that disrupt operations and negatively impact providers’ reputations. What progress has occurred in tackling the problem and giving decision-makers new solutions to consider?

6. From Symptoms To Solutions: Measuring What Matters To Transform Reservoir Risk Management 4/16/2025

   A new methodology for measuring “what truly matters” empowers reservoir managers to make informed, proactive decisions that break the cycle of lake degradation and secure long-term water quality and ecosystem health.

7. Trump Demands Water Owed From U.S.-Mexico Treaty 4/16/2025

   Amid three years of drought, Mexico has struggled to deliver on its promises to the U.S. made per a 1944 water treaty. Under the treaty, Mexico agreed to send 1.75 million acre-feet of water to the U.S. every five years. However, the country is currently experiencing the most widespread drought since 2011.

8. Modernizing U.S. Water Utilities: A Data-Driven Imperative 4/15/2025

   The U.S. water utility sector stands at a critical juncture, facing a confluence of challenges that demand innovative and strategic responses. Aging infrastructure, escalating operational costs, and the persistence of data silos are placing immense pressure on these essential service providers. To navigate this complex landscape and ensure the continued delivery of safe and reliable water services, a fundamental shift towards proactive, data-driven approaches is not just beneficial but essential.

9. America Confronts Urgent Water Infrastructure Needs 4/15/2025

   The focus on water is extreme in almost every state in America. The most critical issues tend to be water resources, aging water treatment plants, flood control, aging dam structures, and leaking water pipelines. These types of projects are usually expensive, but the good news is that there is still federal funding available.

10. Cybersecurity Defense In The Water Industry: 3 Steps Utilities Can Take Now 4/14/2025

    Cybersecurity has been in the news in recent years. Steep ransomware demands. Stolen identities, credentials, and intellectual property. And major disruptions to operations around the world. Water and wastewater utilities need to know that they are targets. But some utilities mistakenly think these cyber threats won’t impact them.